The Washington critic., 1887-11-19
NOTES AND GOSSIP.

THE official majority for Governor-elect
Jackson OF Maryland is 12,41G over Brook s
and 5000 over all.
JAY GOULD, who is ambitious to own the
earth, has gone over to see what the other
side looks like Puck.
ARoLLNG STONE gathers no moss, but
a bicycle rider accumulates lots OF real
estate on his back.-[ Milwaukee Journal.
MIR. CoNKLINe will probably be allowed
n fee of Sc 800 for his recent services In the
Virginia bond cases, the same as allowed
Mr.. Garland and the late II. I. Merrick iu
similar proceedings.
"PA, what does wooden wedding
mean ?" Pa, looking over his paper-"Is
means, my son, that II the welded parties
were free they wooden get married again.
That's all."-LMacon Telegraph.
A CAR Of the United States Fish Com
mission has just arrived at Atlanta with
5000 ecale carp, 5000 leather carp and
several hundred gold fish for distribution In
Georgia rivers and private ponds.
THE new Legislature of Virginia will
stand politically as follows: senate--Dem-
ocrats, 26; Republicans, IA House-Dem
ocrats, 81; Republicans, 3s; Independent,
!. Democratic majority on joint ballot, 81.
TnE Government Geet employed on the
improvements of the Missouri River has
gone into winter quarters and will stay
| there until Congress makes another appro.
| piiation. 1t consists of two tow boats and
eighty.seven fiat boats.
BARONESS ALTHEA SALVADOR is the
wife Of Baron Salvador OF Paris, who visited
the United States two or three years ago
| and to whom she was married In 1851 The
Baroness was originally Miss Althea Kimp.
| son OF Chicago, who went abroad to prose-
cute her musical studies.
| l.. u. REAvIs OF st. Louis Is going into
the lecture field as an opponent OF lnger-
sollism. Mr.. Reavis Is the gentleman who
noting the low estate into which Washing
ton had fallen some years ago, Undertook tC
| move the National Capital out West, In
attempting to "down" Coloutl Bob, he I,
tackling another heavy contract.
PucK's Library No. 8, Just out, Is eth,
Funny Baby, being Pucks best thing
about our Household Apgels,n and
funny number 1t is, with capital lllustra
tions by opper, Zimmerman, Dalrymple
L. l.. Sylvester and others. There Is moth
Ing more ludicrous, when artIsticall
manipulated, than the ludlcrous side o
| the llttle fOlke.
A SKELETON was exhumed in the river o
Louisville Wednesday by dredge-boa
which is supposed to be the remain
OF the captain Of the Goyernmen
steamer Daniel d. Taylor, that was burne,
at the Louisville wharf twenty-five year
ago. The last that was ever seen Of the car
tain he jumped of the boat into the water
and his body was not recovered.
DIR. L. B. CLIFTON of Macon, Ca, tn
Federal Court stenographer, was th
amanuensis Of Charles Dickens at Cad
Hill and took copy for "The Mystery {
Edwin Drood." He told an Atlanta Coz
shtutiOn correspondent the other day this
Dickens "would rattle away elegantly fc
awhile, until he got stuck on phrase c
sentence for which he desired a peculia
twist, when he would stop and hesitate an
think and grow terribly nervous, trying I
, get II to his notion. lie would go on fc
several pages, then turn, go back agaiI
go over 1t again, and tear itup and begl
again"